There's no special reason why I haven't bothered to update lately, just a sort of general malaise and sense that I should be doing other stuff at work. A particularly acute sense of that, actually. It's getting busier, and with it I am getting closer to the sort of work that I am very new to and not yet comfortable with, which includes the exercise of decisions regarding the direction of Project Porkpie. Why is it that when they were telling me I was going to be a project manager, nobody mentioned that I might have to appear decisive and in control? I feel I could have steered them a little clear...

And the else?

Since so very much time has passed since the last Lexifab entry, I'll just itemise everything that's been going on rather than attempt to provide details. This is the sort of skill I need to practise for my job. I will also work backwards to give my morning brain time to remember some of the less recent stuff

• Today - It's Eurovision 2005! Our Eurovision SongContest party is on this afternoon and already the house is starting to fill up. Meagan's ex-Hobart friends Chris and Robert arrived last night, and sometime during the morning we expect something like a dozen other people to rock up. The house will be bursting at the seams with sequins, fake fur and various other crimes against fashion.There will heckling and “mock” karaoke. There will be exotic booze and rich foods. Every year, we dress up and watch the ESC, laugh along with Terry Wogan's increasingly scathing commentary and reel with horror at the sheer awfulness of Europe's finest vocal talents. This will be a day to remember, yes.

• Also today - My cousin Becca and her boyfriend Joel are tying the knot today. There will be a wedding of some desciption, though I don't really have any details since I only heard about it a week ago. Still, good on 'em. With their second bub now officially on the way, it'll make our Nan happy (I half suspect that that's actually their main motivation for going through with it, but that's just a guess).

• Yesterday - Spent the day in bed (and, all right, on the computer) with what seemed to have been a touch of the flu – headache, aching joints etc. Apart from a sore neck, it seems to have vanished now, so I either beat it or imagined it and either way nothing shall now stop me from glamming up for this afternoon's festivities. Yesterday's important achievement's included finally getting around to watching The Second Coming (a TV movie starring new Doctor Who Christopher Ecclestone as the Son of God. No, really). It's pretty damn good. And I found got together enough cash in World of Warcraft to afford a riding kodo (kind of a rhino-looking thing) for Vasharda to ride around on. If I posted pictures on here, I'd post a picture of that. Oh, and the giant dinosaur that ate me while I was standing back admiring my new riding beast and trying to set up a photo...

• Houseful of family - My cousins Jenny and Elizabeth moved to Canberra some months ago, and we finally managed to actually get them over for dinner on Wednesday night, along with both sets of parents. I haven't seen Rob and Jocelyn (Jen's parents) or Hilary and Alan (Liz's) for years, and in fact Joce hadn't even met Fiona yet. Meags made a very yummy stew and we had a lovely evening. Apart from the very pleasant company, the most remarkable thing was discovering our dining room has the capacity to comfortably seat 14. Now all we need is a table (or tables) large and cool enough to do the space justice, and our dinner parties will be the greatest triumphs known to man. Or something.

• Birthdays, celebrated and actual - Tiffany hit 35 on Wednesday. I would declare her officially old, but Fiona and I are making the same milestone next week, so bugger that. Ted and Sumie welcomed Hana Renee into the world a couple of weeks ago, but we heard about it this week.

• No more Defender of the Universe - Chris' cat Emily passed away on the weekend. She was an odd cat, given to unprovoked startlement and twitchiness. For this and many other unusual and not always endearing qualities, it had long been assumed that she was uniquely able to perceive threats to the existence of the universe completely invisible to the rest of us, and was charged by some higher force with seeing them off with a hiss or a long blank stare. Fortunately for us all, she discharged this duty with great fervour throughout her time in this world. Presumably the mantle has now been passed to some new Chosen One, perhaps in Hong Kong or New York City.

• Other stuff - There's probably been other stuff going on, but as yet the brain has not recalled it, so let's leave it there. Too bad that this afternoon's celebrations will probably scourge any vestiges of my short- and medium-term memory, so whatever it was I can't quite recall right now will be gone forever. That's my guess anyway.

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